Trends · data through September 2026

Supermarkets in California

Iceflower tracks 2,549 stores from 986 supermarkets in California. Golden Gate Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Vijetha Indian Supermarket and Valley Market.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
986
Tracked stores
2,549
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked supermarkets

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Golden Gate Market and Vijetha Indian Supermarket sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Golden Gate Market ▲1 +17.6%
2 V Vijetha Indian Supermarket ▲2 +17.5%
3 V Valley Market ▲2 +17.4%
4 H Holiday Market logo Holiday Market - +14.9%
5 L Luke's Local ▲2 +13.9%
6 P Pavilions logo Pavilions ▲1 +11.1%
7 T The Market ▼2 +10.5%
8 V Village Market - +9.1%
9 M Mar-Val Food Stores logo Mar-Val Food Stores ▲2 +8.8%
10 B Bianchini's Market logo Bianchini's Market ▲2 +8.7%
11 L La Preciosa Market - +8.1%
12 T Tower Market - +7.8%
13 M Mi Rancho Supermarket ▲2 +6.3%
14 G Galleria Market - +6.2%
15 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce - +5.8%
  • Safeway
  • Stater Bros. Markets
  • Vons
  • Albertsons
  • Ralphs
  • Raley's
  • Save Mart
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,549 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Safeway (255)
  • Stater Bros. Markets (176)
  • Vons (188)
  • Albertsons (141)
  • Ralphs (205)
  • Raley's (113)
  • Save Mart (82)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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